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Bridging the gap to future surgical success: Surgeon-coaches can help colleagues thrive
What is surgical coaching? The Institute for Life Coach Training defines coaching as a professional relationship that helps people produce extraordinary results in their lives, careers, businesses or organizations, helping them to bridge the gap between where they are now…
Medical education requires a reboot in the digital age, argues stent-grafting pioneer
LAS VEGAS—Medical education is confronted by huge opportunities with the coming of what has been termed the fourth industrial revolution—that of the intersection where “big biology and big medicine” meet “big data.” Those were the sentiments of Michael Dake, MD,…
March 2020 is vascular recruitment month
Much has been made of the impending shortage of physicians in the United States, with ominous predictions that it could come as soon as 2030.1 The driving force behind the overall shortage is a menacing convergence of a rising, aging…
Patients with asymptomatic severe carotid stenosis may be successfully managed medically, researchers find ‘relatively high’ long-term survival
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo.—High-risk patients with asymptomatic severe carotid stenosis may be successfully managed medically, delegates at the winter meeting of the Vascular & Endovascular Surgery Society (VESS) held in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, Jan. 30–Feb. 2, were told. That was the…
Integration of 3D imaging and optimized 3D robotic control set to be ‘important’ part of vascular surgery future
NEW YORK—The marriage of 3D imaging and robotics in hybrid operating suites promises to be a pivotal aspect of the future in vascular surgery—part of advances in the field that down the road will see surgeons look back on the…
‘No evidence’ to suggest spinal cord injury is decreased by prophylactic drainage during EVAR procedures
MIAMI—Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) drainage is a key component in the treatment of spinal cord injury but the evidence that prophylactic drainage decreases such injury during endovascular repair (EVAR) is “at best weak,” Gustavo S. Oderich, MD, told the Critical Issues…
New meta-analysis finds ‘no observed difference’ in mortality between paclitaxel and uncoated device use in CLTI patients
February 2020 brings another paclitaxel device meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials in chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) patients. Krystal Dinh, BMed, of Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia, et al report online ahead of print that the risk of all-cause mortality after treatment with…
FDA keeps close watch on heparin dosing reports
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is closely monitoring reports of higher than usual doses of heparin being required to achieve activated clotting times (ACT) during cardiac procedures. The FDA “is aware of spontaneous adverse event reports submitted to FDA’s…
Drug-coated technology question aired during SAVS opening session
PALM BEACH, Fla.—Discussion of the drug-coated technology issue was piqued during the opening session of the Southern Association for Vascular Surgery (SAVS) annual meeting (Jan. 8–11) in Palm Beach, Florida. William P. Robinson III, MD, professor and chief in the…
CMS publishes 2020 round of coding changes for vascular surgeons
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has provided some light reading with the publication of the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems, as well as Quality Reporting Programs final rules…